films

Films

Here you can find films and their background to be watched online and used for public screenings at exhibitions or in museums.

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What is a Neural Network?
Beautifully explained using the example: number recognition.

Footage of a live experience where an AI was trained to win at Tic Tac Toe by using matchboxes filled with plastic beads to adjust probabilities based on past games.

Maps of the Earth allow us to imagine our planet, to navigate it, to display information…, but these maps give us a distorted vision of reality. How can we understand what we see on these...

During 2015, 2016 and 2017, the IMAGINARY Uruguayan team carried out a series of big IMAGINARY exhibitions all around the country. The tour...

Thomas M. J. Schäfer composed a permutative canon for 3 voices, 30 bars and 300 seconds. The graphical score has the shape of an equilateral triangle. The canon theme...

Gerhard Widmer on Expressive Music Performance, the Boesendorfer CEUS, and a MIDI Theremin

The Earth’s magnetic field is protecting us from the dangers from outside. However, once in a while, it is possible that a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) launched from our...

This 5-min-long film shows how scientists use drones to monitor and model the detachment of icebergs (calving) from the Bowdoin Glacier in Northwest Greenland.

We approximate and effectively simulate different characteristic patterns of a drum vibration using algebraic surfaces.

We visualize simple geometric beauty combined with mathematical content. Please enjoy.

In March 1926, four young men did not return from a mountain hike at the Aletsch Glacier. It was not until 2012 that their remains were found. This film explains how scientists reconstructed the...

Analogous to Henri Poincaré’s concept of dodecahedral space the epita_dodecahedron allows to visualize the principle of the counter-movements of the opposite polyhedra E+ instead of the...

Using color and movement, this video rigorously explains what a translation surface is, and the theorem about translation surfaces that I proved in my Ph. D. thesis...

Un paseo por un politopo quiral de dimensión pequeña.

Nudos salvajes

The official release of Ulliroyal’s song November Rhapsody

AnimaSurfer is an artistic animation made for the Formas & Fórmulas exhibition (Portugal 2012 - 2013).

A journey through the mathematical theory of braids.

A two hour film on dynamical systems: see www.chaos-math.org

Relationship between mathematics and astronomy goes back in time. An analysis, though superficial, of a few episodes in the history of Mathematics shows how this science is actually fundamental to...

Alpine glaciers have been shrinking for more than one century. This trend is expected to continue if the global warming progresses. This film shows how mathematicians and glaciologists work...

One of the main goals of wave propagation numerical modeling is to describe some earthquake phenomena as close as possible. The role of numerical wave propagation simulations is not to predict...

Beneath the sea surface, there exists a vast network of ocean currents, which, like gigantic conveyor belts, transport huge water volumes. Although the real map of these currents is extremely...

The film The Convertible House represents a virtual floor plan of house that can change its layout to accustom itself to different weather and environmental conditions. Depending on the actual...

Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!

The Berlin Underground features nine lines that meet in 19 transfer stations. How to compute a periodic timetable that minimizes the total waiting time of all the passengers in this network, while...

An artistic journey into the world of elliptic curve cryptography.